This is the first European marine carbon cemetery against climate change

Ineos and Wintershall Dea plan to put the Greensand pilot project into operation in 2024. The intention is for the North Sea to become a ‘hub’ by importing carbon from the EU

200 kilometers from Esbjerg, an icy and decaying Danish industrial city in the southwest of the Jutland peninsula, which had its splendor 50 years ago thanks to oil and gas, the Greensand marine carbon capture and storage project is being tested. The British chemist Ineos and the German Wintershall Dea – a subsidiary of BASF – who lead a consortium of 23 organizations for this purpose, have managed to capture the carbon dioxide produced in the ethylene oxide plant that has the first in Belgium, transport it by ship through the North Sea after its conversion into liquid and store it in the Nini West field at 1,800 meters deep. in a depleted oil well of the multinational Ineos Energy in Denmark.

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